seven relics

Hearing a "dang", the black sword stopped on the string of beads, pointing directly at Qu Jiuchuan's chest, Lian Jiangyue wanted to strike down again, all the strength of her body was concentrated on her hands , but the black sword didn't move at all, just when he was at his wit's end, he saw that the beads wrapped around Qu Jiuchuan's body scattered and fell to the ground, turning into many soft petal-like things, shining red light .

At the same time, Qu Jiuchuan also fell to the ground, he was fine and whole.In addition to being overjoyed, Lian Jiangyue was still tense, not daring to relax in the slightest, and stepped in front of Qu Jiuchuan in a big stride, protecting him, staring at the redness of the ground, her voice became even tighter. A line: "These things really won't explode, right?"

Qu Jiuchuan, a carp, jumped up, grabbed Lian Jiangyue, and retreated far away, staring at the chaos on the ground.Although the beads were scattered, small sparks would flicker on the soft shells from time to time.

Qu Jiuchuan analyzed: "In this situation, my beads don't listen to me for no reason. It stands to reason that once the silk thread is withdrawn and the beads fall to the ground, these sparks should not appear again. I can't guarantee that they won't explode. Let's wait for 3 minutes."

Lian Jiangyue nodded, and said again: "Look at their reflections on the ground."

When Qu Jiuchuan saw it, he repeatedly expressed surprise: "The reflection is a complete Jiuqu bead, but the ground is a disfigured Jiuqu bead." He tightened his grip on Lian Jiangyue's arm, and his voice It was also more serious: "I feel that my beads are no longer my beads. This feeling is very strange." He raised his face and said again: "The monk seems to ignore us."

Lian Jiangyue also looked at the monk, and said: "Actually, can you be sure that the attack on you just now was really done by this monk? I haven't seen his hands, I haven't even seen his hand."

The monk's wide sleeves are folded together, and his hands seem to be in a clasping gesture under the sleeves.

Qu Jiuchuan stared fiercely: "But if there is someone else, where is this person hiding? The Tao I learned just now came from a high place, and there is only such a monk in the high place."

Lian Jiangyue also had no solution to this question, and there was one more thing he couldn't figure out, so he said to Qu Jiuchuan: "My sword came over just now, how do you feel?"

"I almost thought I was going to be hacked to death by you! But..."

"but?"

"It can be seen that you don't know how to use a sword at all, and you swing it completely with brute force, so at first I only felt an unmodified, rough and crude sword style in your slash, until the sword approached, I unexpectedly noticed There is a trace of sword energy, this sword energy is very gloomy, very cold, like a ghost smiling at you from behind the woods, it's weird."

Lian Jiangyue said: "The sword just now seems to be cut by this sword itself."

He looked down at the black sword in his hand, and weighed it with both hands: "The sword is three feet long and weighs two catties, which is a bit too heavy." He said, "It is recorded in "Ancient and Modern Sword Records" that Deng Ai was 12 years old At that time, a precious sword was dug under a stone tablet, more than three feet long, 'black as lacquer', 'there is always energy on the sword, it is sad, and the world thinks it is a god'."

Qu Jiuchuan said: "Why is Deng Ai digging up other people's steles?"

Lian Jiangyue laughed and said, "Three minutes are up."

The red soft shell on the ground did not explode, and those flickering sparks disappeared without a trace.Qu Jiuchuan said: "I think there is no problem."

Lian Jiangyue breathed a sigh of relief as if she was relieved.But the release of this breath is not beneficial to him. His body is already weak, and he had already exerted all his strength when he lifted the sword, but he still felt it was difficult, especially when he swung the sword, he relied entirely on it. A wave of belief, braced up the spirit to support it, now Qu Jiuchuan is safe and sound, and the Jiuqu Pearl has not caused any troubles, although the tense nerves have been relaxed, but the spirit that is hanging by force is not. He also left him in an instant. In an instant, Lian Jiangyue felt extremely empty inside, as if she had only an empty shell left, her whole body was staggering, and she couldn't even stand firmly, so she had to lean on the ground with her long sword and lean on a chair. The pagoda can barely stand still.

"Are you okay?" Qu Jiuchuan helped him and said, "It seems that the monk has completely ignored us. You rest here and I will find your father for you. If you don't think this is a big insult to your father No disrespect, we burned him right here."

Lian Jiangyue waved her hands, feeling tired and short of breath: "I said it before, let's burn it here..."

When Qu Jiuchuan heard the words, he stopped his movements, looked in the direction of the monk, and said, "You don't think this monk will beat us up again at that time?"

Lian Jiangyue was also a little worried, and raised her head to look at the monk again. At this moment, the young monk raised his head slightly and was also looking at him.The four eyes meet.There is neither joy, anger nor sorrow in the monk's eyes, they are transparent, deep and untraceable, faint and elusive, they can be described as a pair of wisdom eyes, full of emptiness, seeing the cold hands and feet of the moon in the river, as if falling into an ice cave.

Lian Jiangyue shivered involuntarily, his lungs throbbed, and a bloody smell rolled in his throat.But the coldness of the monk gave him a bit of a human atmosphere.Lian Jiangyue faintly felt that the monks were not as inaccessible as before, unable to negotiate.

Therefore, Lian Jiangyue swallowed her saliva forcefully, suppressed the fishy sweet taste, and said to the monk: "Master, I hate Lian Wu to death. Before he died, he confessed that he wanted to bring his body here to be cremated. We really didn't mean it." Trespassing on the quiet place of Buddhism, I hope you will be magnanimous and fulfill a last wish that I hate."

When Lian Jiangyue said this to the monk, she realized that there was a long scar on the monk's neck, which was cut right at his throat.

The monk didn't answer, but just looked at him.

To show her sincerity, Lian Jiangyue put down the black sword in her hand and put her hands together.Qu Jiuchuan asked softly beside him: "Do you have a feeling of being purified? I am not angry when this monk looks at me like this. I am not angry that he suddenly attacked and robbed my beads. You I don’t know how much effort it takes to make a Jiuqu Bead..."

Qu Jiuchuan was eloquent, and when he mentioned the hard work of making Jiuqu beads, he was crying.When the monk heard this, he tiptoed, flew down from a high place, and landed firmly on the ground. He waved his hand lightly, and the dozen or so pagodas surrounding Lian Jiangyue and Qu Jiuchuan were replaced. The location gave way to a trail.Lianwuchen just lay naked at the end of the path, on the ground like a mirror.

There is no reflection of pity and hatred on the ground.

There was a reflection of the monk on the ground, the two monks were exactly the same, but the white clothes on the monk in the reflection were whiter than the monk himself, and the monk in the reflection emitted more light than himself.

The monk walked up to Qu Jiuchuan and Lian Jiangyue, bowed to them, stretched out two jade hands from his wide sleeves, raised an index finger in each hand, and approached his face, each raised the corner of his mouth, and made a gesture. State of smile appears.

Qu Jiuchuan hiccupped, probably because he was frightened.Lian Jiangyue was also a little dumbfounded, thinking it was funny, but also kind of unspeakable horror.Even though the monk's artificial smile seemed so sincere and from the bottom of his heart, even his eyes seemed to be filled with smiles because of the corners of his mouth curled up on both sides.

The smiling monk walked towards Lianwuhan.

Qu Jiuchuan let out a long sigh of relief, rubbed his wrists and neck, relaxed, and said, "Do you think this monk was moved by what I just said? Hearing me talk about the hard work of making Jiuqu beads, He came down, if I had known this, I would have sold out as soon as I saw him."

Lian Jiangyue had no intention of investigating the motives of the monk's actions, and said with reason and evidence: "The heavy fog, phantom grass, fire, and this temple that we encountered are all unexplainable by ordinary reasoning and logic. No one has used any ultimate moves, and there is nothing to think about."

As he said this, he followed the monk with his eyes, saw that he had already walked in front of Lian Wuhou, and saw that he stretched out his hand and dug out a black flame from a stupa, and threw it on Lian Wuchen's body.My pity and my hatred are on fire.

Qu Jiuchuan trotted over: "Good guy, it's really burning, is this the real fire of Samadhi?" He looked around all the way and shouted, "Master, what kind of weird things are you offering in the pagoda here? ? A pen, a gun...is this a gun?"

The monk didn't say a word, and sat cross-legged next to Lianwuchen, and pulled down the corners of his mouth with his fingers, making a mournful appearance.

Qu Jiuchuan ran to the burning Lian Wu Hate, squatted by the fire, and asked the monk, "Master, is this the Que Que Temple? What is the Que Que Temple?"

Lian Jiangyue also walked over, stood at Lian Wu's feet, and said: "I heard that the ancients built weapon tombs and buried those weapons that killed countless people, so as to appease the souls of those who died under these weapons."

"I've heard of it too, but why is there a mirror? Could it be Snow White's stepmother's magic mirror?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "Mirrors can also hurt people."

Qu Jiuchuan thought for a while: "A hidden weapon?"

At this time, his stomach was beating a drum, the monk looked at him, but remained silent, but took out two peaches from his wide sleeve, and handed one to him and Lian Jiangyue.Qu Jiuchuan smiled, bowed his hands in obeisance, thanked him, bowed to Jiangyue, and said: "I know, this master will only show his compassion when he sees our misery for what he sees. If he meets someone who fights against him, he will fight him like hell, he may be the spring master."

Lian Jiangyue was also hungry, and ate the peaches as soon as she took them. He couldn't help laughing after hearing Qu Jiuchuan's words. With this smile, he was choked by the peaches in his throat and kept coughing. Pass him the bowl of water.

Qu Jiuchuan's eyes straightened: "Master Dora."

Lian Jiangyue drank two sips of water, and said to Qu Jiuchuan, "Concentrate on eating peaches and stop talking."

Qu Jiuchuan looked at him with concern: "Don't say a few words, eat slowly, and drink slowly, I'm really afraid that you will cough up blood again, you see there is still blood on your mouth, brother, you Could it be tuberculosis? Can it infect people?"

"My lung qi is out of balance, and my qi and blood are easily out of balance. It's not a serious problem. Do you think I'm not doing well now?"

"Isn't coughing up blood a serious problem? Then how can it be considered a serious problem, coughing up the whole lung? Brother, women are made of blood and water, and we men are just made of blood. Why don't you take it seriously when you cough up blood?"

Qu Jiuchuan also asked him in a low voice: "Do you think there is a tattoo on the back of Master A's right hand?"

Lian Jiangyue had noticed before that the back of the monk's hand did seem to have something tattooed on it, but his hand would only protrude from the wide sleeve when he was making an expression for his face and giving things to him and Qu Jiuchuan Some, he also can't study well.Lian Jiangyue drank the water in the bowl in one gulp and returned the bowl to the monk.The monk put away the bowl, looked at him, and wiped the corner of his mouth with his hand.This time, Lian Jiangyue firmly memorized the ghostly talisman-like pattern on the back of his right hand.

Not long after, both Qu Jiuchuan and Lian Jiangyue finished eating the peaches in their hands, and the fire on Lian Wuchen's body was also extinguished, no different from those corpses that had been cremated in the funeral home's incinerator, his flesh and blood were gone Looking for it, only some gray-black powder and a few gray-white long bones remained.

The monk smiled again, and put his hand into the ashes of Lianwuhan.

Qu Jiuchuan wiped his mouth, pointed at the ashes, and tugged at Jiang Yue: "Look, is it a relic?"

Some black and shiny stones can be faintly seen in Lianwuchen's ashes.

Qu Jiuchuan raised his voice and said excitedly: "I understand, your father is a nominal layman of this temple, right? Although this place does not know whether it can be called a temple, but he burned out the relics, you Count them, there are so many!"

Lian Jiangyue crossed her arms, looked at the stones, and said in surprise: "I didn't expect that there would be seven relics."

"What do you mean unexpected?"

"Lian Wu hated that he would burn seven relics after his death, and asked me to go to seven places and give them to seven people."

Qu Jiuchuan was confused: "Your dad is still an RPG game player?"

The monk picked out those black-glowing stones and handed them to Lian Jiangyue. Lian Jiangyue stretched out her hand, and the stones fell into his palm one by one, seven in total, still warm.

Lian Jiangyue lowered her eyes, picked out one of those relics, and handed it back to the monk: "One of them is for you."

The monk took the black relic and put it in his sleeve, neither smiling nor crying.Lian Jiangyue looked at him, as if facing the wind and frost of the twelfth lunar month, as if a northwest wind suddenly blew towards him, the wind howled, and there were human voices in the wind!Lian Jiangyue heard someone say in his ear: "Since you can pull out this Weeping Rain Sword, it means that it has not been killed, so you can take it away."

He looked at the monk, and the scar on the monk's neck, who hadn't said a word until now, suddenly disappeared, and he looked at the black sword that was stuck obliquely on the ground, emitting a faint light.Lian Jiangyue hurriedly asked Qu Jiuchuan: "Did you hear that, he just spoke!"

"Is anyone talking?" Qu Jiuchuan blinked, "You haven't come out of the illusion of the phantom grass, have you?" Qu Jiuchuan patted his thigh: "I understand again, we are still here In the illusion created by the Phantom Grass, otherwise...what happened here just now? How can I explain it?" He pointed to a large circle around him, and he was still talking energetically for a second, but his eyes suddenly became slack. Jiang Yue, with a tired face, yawned, then lay down on the ground, muttering: "I'm so sleepy, I'll sleep for a while."

Lian Jiangyue pushed him a few times, but Qu Jiuchuan was already in a deep sleep, and his snoring started gradually.Lian Jiangyue looked at the monk again, and the long scar on his throat appeared again!

The sky was still bright, Lian Jiangyue put away the remaining six relics, and calmed down, but she was also a little sleepy, her eyelids closed uncontrollably, and she fell asleep.When he woke up, Qu Jiuchuan was still beside him, already awake, holding his phone high.It was still daytime, the sun was shining, and there were a few floating clouds in the sky.

"Yes!" Qu Jiuchuan cheered, jumped up and down, looked back, looked at Lian Jiangyue, and said with a smile: "Are you awake? We are back, back to Stone Village!"

Lian Jiangyue got up and pulled away the surrounding corn stalks. There was no doubt that they were in a corn field surrounded by tall corn. He asked, "How do you know this is a stone village? Did you start?" Positioned?"

Qu Jiuchuan broke off a section of corn casually and put it in his pocket: "Old Li's family in Shitou Village grows this kind of colorful corn in Shili Baxiang. righteousness."

As he said that, he broke another section of corn, threw it to Lian Jiangyue, walked away from the cornfield swaggeringly, and said: "When I woke up, I was already here. If you don't want that black sword, then Give it to me, I lost a bead."

Lian Jiangyue saw that the black sword was stuck at his feet, but it looked a little different from before, as if the sword was covered with a thick layer of black paint.He was in a dilemma: "How can I take this back, can't I pass the security check at the station?"

"You can bring it. I just researched it. This sword is made of stone. When you pass the security check, you say you bought a child's toy, or you can also cosplay. Look at your long hair. , your figure, this face, I think, you can say that you are a model, you can bring your own props and go out on location." Qu Jiuchuan turned around and greeted Lian Jiangyue: "Are you still going?"

Lian Jiangyue pulled out the black sword, she was surprised again, the black sword was not as heavy as before, it was as light as a feather.

Qu Jiuchuan called him again, and Lian Jiangyue hurriedly followed him.The two walked out of the cornfield, climbed up the ridge, and were picking up the grass and dirt on each other's clothes, when a middle-aged woman ran towards them waving her hands from a nearby yard and yelling.When he got to the two of them, without saying a word, he dragged them into a tricycle.The woman drove and took them all the way to the village hospital.

Qu Jiuchuan and Lian Jiangyue said: "This is Xiao Li's mother. She said that Xiao Li is sick, and she wants to take us to see Xiao Li. He is in the hospital for infusion."

Xiao Li was the only one in the infusion room of the hospital. He was lying on an infusion bed with a dead face. He had lost a lot of weight. When he saw Qu Jiuchuan and Lian Jiangyue, Xiao Li sat up in panic and pinched him. His own arm, slapping his face: "I'm not dreaming!"

Xiao Li's mother stepped forward to hug him, and his tears fell immediately, and he said straightly: "I disappeared when I turned around after peeing. You haven't heard from me for two days and two nights! Everyone in our village After a while, many people began to say that they had never seen you two, I thought you... you... I thought I was insane!"

Xiao Li's mother also shed tears, wiped her eyes, looked at Qu Jiuchuan, took the hot water bottle by the bed and went out.

Qu Jiuchuan patted Xiao Li's shoulder reassuringly, put the corn in his pocket on his hospital bed, and kept winking at Lian Jiangyue.Lian Jiangyue also quickly took out the corn.

Qu Jiuchuan said: "Your mother asked me to bring it to you, saying that you must want to eat the corn at home, and let the nurse steam it for you later."

Qu Jiuchuan also said: "You forgot to pull the handbrake when you got out of the car to pee. We happened to be on a slope at that time, and the car went straight down. When I stabilized the car and drove back, I couldn't find you. Then the car broke down. Yes, we discussed and walked back to the village. I have been here for more than a year on my own, and I am familiar with this area, and I still have a mobile phone. I thought I could find it by myself, but my mobile phone was broken. His mobile phone No electricity, we lost our way and just found it."

Xiao Li patted Qu Jiuchuan's arm: "Just come back, just come back." He rubbed his eyes and looked at the black sword in Lian Jiangyue's hand: "What is this?"

Qu Jiuchuan rushed to say: "Oh, the crutches I found on the road are so unique."

Lian Jiangyue smiled and asked, "Is there a courier station nearby?"

Qu Jiuchuan pushed him out: "I'll take you there, let's go, let's go." He told Xiao Li, "Rest well, eat and sleep well!"

Out of the infusion room, Qu Jiuchuan said to Lian Jiangyue: "Don't tell the people in the village what happened to us this time. If you tell me, I won't admit it, so everyone will think you are crazy. Only You are crazy. First, this matter is so bizarre that readers of novels will call you nonsense, and second, I am afraid that you may have missed the point when you mentioned Jiuquzhu."

Lian Jiangyue said: "Don't worry, I promise you to keep the secret, and I will keep it tight."

Qu Jiuchuan smiled and asked him, "Why are you looking for a courier station?"

"Send something."

Qu Jiuchuan took Lian Jiangyue to a grocery store in the village. This was the only express delivery point in the village. Lian Jiangyue went in and asked for six paper boxes and six express orders.Qu Jiuchuan saw that there was some way to go, and asked him: "Is the relic a very precious thing? You just express it like this?"

Lian Jiangyue said while writing the list: "What age is this, do you want me to find these people one by one?"

Qu Jiuchuan said: "Thank you for remembering these addresses."

Lian Jiangyue said: "I have only one breath for my pity and my hatred, and I can still talk about these places."

Qu Jiuchuan pointed to the breakfast shop on the opposite side, and walked outside: "Let's have breakfast together, I'll go and order a few things first, and you can add more later if you don't see enough."

Lian Jiangyue continued to fill in the form. In the sender column, he wrote Lian Wuchen. When he reached the mobile phone number column, he paused, looked outside, and scribbled down Qu Jiuchuan's number.

The six couriers cost nearly [-]. Lian Jiangyue paid the money, went out, counted the cash on her body, took out five [-] pieces, walked into the breakfast shop and handed them to Qu Jiuchuan.Qu Jiuchuan drew two hundred and said, "I don't want any more. I can't afford it. The two hundred are for funeral errands, and we clearly marked the price."

Lian Jiangyue nodded: "That's fine."

Served early, two big bowls of hot and spicy soup mixed with tofu brain, two pancakes filled with eggs, one bowl of dry noodles with pickled vegetables and shredded pork, and two plates of shredded pickled carrots.Lian Jiangyue squeezed the money and asked: "Then this meal, shall we aa?"

Qu Jiuchuan took a sip of the hot soup, wrinkled his face with a smile, nodded and said, "Okay, okay, originally I wanted to invite you, but seeing how stingy you are, I changed my mind, aa Let's go." He ordered two more glasses of fruit wine brewed by the store, and when the wine was delivered, he raised his glass to respect Jiang Yue and said, "I invite you for this wine. You saved my life in the Que Que Temple. If you come to this area of ​​Henan again, if you need help, just ask me."

Lian Jiangyue also toasted: "If you go to Zhejiang in the future, you can come to me for anything."

He wanted to drink, but Qu Jiuchuan stopped him: "Just make up your mind."

Lian Jiangyue nodded: "Okay, I mean it."

He drank half a glass, and when he put down the glass, he looked at Qu Jiuchuan. He was staring at him with worried eyes, and he was also worried when he spoke: "Brother, I didn't say that your body always It needs to be cured..."

Lian Jiangyue didn't care: "The fortune teller said I can live to be 90 years old."

Qu Jiuchuan became even more worried: "It's meaningless to live for so long."

Both of them laughed, and chatted some gossips while eating. The soup, cakes, noodles and side dishes at the table were all finished, so they said goodbye before the breakfast shop.Lian Jiangyue caught the morning bus to Beixian and returned to Beixian. Then, he transferred to Zhongzhou, then to Luoyang, from Luoyang Railway Station to Wenzhou, and then to Pingyang.While waiting for the train at Luoyang Railway Station, he visited a specialty store, bought a bottle of Dukang wine and two boxes of peony cakes, and took them back to Pingyang.